- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:29:29 +0200
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- CC: www-html@w3.org, Christian.Hujer@itcqis.com, www-html-editor@w3.org
> No, I don't think that's the basic problem. The basic problem is that > <q> was designed not to degrade gracefully. Browsers that do not > recognize or do not support <q> markup now render just the context, > omitting the potentially vital information that it's a quotation. > Markup like <q><qm>"</qm>To be or not to be, that is the > question<qm>"</qm>.</q> would degrade gracefully. Here qm elements > would contain quotation marks that are to be omitted by user agents > that support the q element. (Cf. to ideas of Ruby markup.) That sounds like a great idea. Something similar could be designed for BLOCKQUOTE as well, I guess. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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